PřF:C8610 Environmental Analyt.Chemistry

C8610 Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Faculty of Science
Spring 2000

Extent and Intensity

2/4/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

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Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Introduction to problem, specific problems of environmental analysis, character of pollution sources, transport of pollutants in the environment, general schema of analytical process.
Sampling. Sample quality, sampling strategy, sampling program, sampling technique, size and number of samples, sampling protocol, sample preservation, transport and storage of samples. Sampling and preservation of various types of samples.
Technique of environmental sample preparation. Extraction, filtration, sample clean-up and fractionation, column liquid chromatography, gel permeation chromatography, selective SFE. Techniques of analytical determination. Direct measurement, titrimetry, gravimetry, atomic spectroscopy, AAS, emission spectral analysis, ICP-OES, molecular spectroscopy, UV-VIS spectrometry, IR spectrometry. Chromatographic techniques, gas chromatography, coupling of GC-MS, MS/MS, liquid chromatography, HPLC on normal and reverse phases, ion-exchange and ion-pair HPLC, detectors, coupling of LC/MS, interface, other tandem technique.
Quality of analytical data, QA/QC fundamentals.
Processes of pollutant determination in environmental components.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.